[whatwg] HTTP Forms extension specification

Anne van Kesteren annevk at annevk.nl
Fri Feb 22 08:37:45 PST 2013


On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 2:29 PM, Cameron Jones <cmhjones at gmail.com> wrote:
> The HTTP headers are restricted using a copy-paste of those in XHR which is
> included in the form submission process. Happy to hear any suggestions to
> improve the structure or general authoring.

You are not making the same checks as
http://xhr.spec.whatwg.org/#the-setrequestheader%28%29-method does.
E.g. I could inject a header value in your algorithm that is CRLF
followed by "Referer: mahahah".

Not really convinced by the use cases, but maybe someone else is.


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